Nice, seem to be a little race for an app store for Amiga, with A-EON announcing it own. I wish you luck.

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Yep,
Like the race to the moon. red ones have lost last time ; )

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projekt metropolis is for all platform.but seems a little dead at the time

Gratulation...

not many people here seem to see how important this is. When I contacted former amiga game-developer one of the requests was a appstore so this is very important if we want to have commercial development again.

Another topic that created interested was ARM.

Yep,

i have already "secured" some software so i hope an existing, open minded apps store can bring new apps and games.

The first and important step will be to get quickly a lot of registered users so people can see that coding for our platform makes sense.

Also it will work on AROS68K ; )
And i am thinking about to "donate" Distro Maintainers a part of the incoming fees.

So the "openamiga" standard becomes a bit more important too.

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nice

any chance to support a mobile platform like f.e. Android?

Yep but you would need to allow apps not installed from google play.
Well Amazon does it too : )

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In theory anybody for any OS could write a client which comunicates to the App store api.
So far Windows, Linux, OSX, AROS, AmigaOS(3.x/4.x) and MorphOS are primary targets.
Android makes sence too.

I would also like that someone can download a aplication for another OS than he uses currently, depending on what the developer of the applications defines as security level. We will see how fast develepment of "extra features" will be but a first release will be definetely this year and asap.

A sort of DRM for audio and video is doable but personally not liked : ) . It can be done if a content creator really asks for it.

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A sort of DRM for audio and video is doable

How do you implement DRM on MorphOS?

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that are really good news. A app store is one of the basic requirements if we want commercial development again.

And on AROS I look forward to see Magellan "in action"

"Sort of" means:
We can bound "content" in a container which needs a validated app store account in order to be executed. So if you have the client on AmigaOS, MOS, Windows, LInux and you logIn on those systems with your account data you could playback those files.

Depending on what a content creator likes you could burn the file x-times to a CD or something like that. Yep.. in that case you could do a mp3 from the CD..

Similar to Itunes DRM policy.

EDIT:
DRM is not needed/wanted in my eyes but as described we can offer this if someone asks.

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I like the idea of an app-store.
I think the 'Amicoins' idea seems like an over-complication though, and one that might put people off since it would require people to commit money prior to 'spending' it.

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I have thought many times about the pro and contra regarding a virtual currency/point system. The result is that i would risk to try it out, if it fails we can change it.

One reason is that the remaining Amiga "HW" dealers can also be involved by selling those point cards.

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25% That's the spirit!

Do you think 25 is too much? I think it is a more than fair starting point and as written above it can be discussed on a per developer base.

The "service" the system offers to a developer is:
free hosting
free advertising / cross advertising
a market right in front of potential customers
Managing payments and monthly payments to developers (some app store have a fixed ammount of money which has to be reached before they do a payment to the developers)

All in all i think 25% is a good starting point but i have no problem if someone has good arguments for a lower fee.

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I think 25 percent is very fair. Itunes and Google Store (and other similars) to my uinderstanding usually take one third of the price.

Sure you can argue that in Amigaland the benefit might not be as great as in Mac/Android land, but I dont think you should go to 10 percent fee or something, since you need to make it actually a viable business to be both able as well as interested in taking all the necessary effort to run it smoothly.

I am personally very happy to see there are now multiple efforts in bringing app store to Amigaland for that is something I have been wanting to see for a long time.